Figurative Language
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100

When someone tries to recreate "real-world" sounds with written or spoken language.

What is Onomatopoeia?

100

Letters that indicate a series of end rhymes. 

(Ex. abab-cdcd)

What is rhyme scheme?

100
This type of literature writes in prose. It uses sentences, paragraphs, and is broken up into chapters.

What is a novel?

100

The point in the plot where the protagonist encounters ever-increasing challenges.

What is rising action?

100

This type of conflict is when the protagonist experiences conflict with another person.

Person vs. Person

200

Making a direct comparison between two things that are not similar.

What is a metaphor?

200

When a string of words start with the same letters or sounds.

What is alliteration?

200

This type of literature is written in verse. It uses lines, stanzas, and is rarely longer than 1 page.

What is poetry?

200

The emotion or vibe that the audience gets from setting, word choice, characterization, etc.

What is Tone/Mood?

200

When something from earlier in a story hints towards an event that is yet to happen.

What is foreshadowing?

300

When a non-human thing is described with human characteristics.

What is personification?

300

A paragraph is to an essay what a _______ is to a poem.

What is a stanza?

300

This type of literature blends both written language and represented images. It utilizes speech bubbles and panels.

What is a comic/graphic novel?

300

The pyramid image starting with the introduction and ends with the conclusion/denouement.

What is a plot structure?

300
When a story is told in the first-person, third-person limited, or third-person omniscient.

What is a point of view?

400

Exaggerating the truth or reality.

What is hyperbole?

400

When a smaller, more easily understood thing is used to represent a larger abstract concept.

What is symbolism?

400

This type of literature uses shots, edits, and is often broken up into scenes.

What is a film/a movie?

400

The main character of a story.

What is a protagonist?

400

This type of character changes over the course of a story.

What is a dynamic character?

500

Language like this describes what you would sense (sight, smell, taste, touch, hear)

What is imagery?

500

This type of poetry is often humorous in nature. It uses anapestic trimeter and follows the AABBA rhyme scheme.

What is a Limerick?

500

This type of literature usually tries to prove a point. It is written in prose, uses introductions, and body paragraphs.

What is an essay/article?

500

The lesson to be learned from a story.

What is the theme/purpose?

500

When the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not.

What is dramatic irony?